From 49c2488244cb7e76d1dce34dade53197c9d2b613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinta Chen Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:42:59 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add httpx2 as challenger to HTTP Clients Pydantic Services took over stewardship of the stalling httpx under the httpx2 name, Starlette already switched its TestClient, and it hit 144M downloads/month (pepy) within 3 months of first release at Production/Stable v2.12.0. Placed last in the challenger tier behind urllib3 per the downloads-descending ordering rule. Fork format and a rewritten description distinguish it from httpx, whose PyPI summary is identical. Co-Authored-By: Claude --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 70b1e445..e3942056 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ _Libraries for working with HTTP._ - [httpx](https://github.com/encode/httpx) - A next generation HTTP client for Python. - [aiohttp](https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp) - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. - [urllib3](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3) - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly. + - [httpx2](https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2) - HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 client with sync and async APIs, maintained by Pydantic ([httpx](https://github.com/encode/httpx) fork). - URL Manipulation - [yarl](https://github.com/aio-libs/yarl) - Yet another URL library. - [httpx.URL](https://www.python-httpx.org/api/) - The immutable URL class bundled with HTTPX.